Dementia and GP payments

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proberly hun .lets face it they know where you are if u have your mobile phone on. sometimes feel that theres a red dot on my fore head .if you know what i mean.

i think its a disgrace that doctors are being given bonuses to do there allready over paid job right . the whole point of becoming a doctor is take care of the sick and infirm. not increase the sick and infirm by not doing there job proberly , then realising that we are far behind other countrys in diognosis and rewarding the doctor for doing his job properly .

Our GP practice has been offering simple memory tests to the elderly for some time. If a patient fails it they get referred to a memory clinic run by the practice.

its in the paper daily mail i think on line .

yes so you think it wont be misused then . just like the pill was only ever going to be prescribed to married women , and prozac was never made for children but there are many children onit. like statins increase your risk of pulmorey heart disease after an heart attack by surprising q10 . big money to be made in both these areas . i think is more likely to be the reason .

many cases of this condition are caused by long term use of some meds anyway . not all of course but iv read many articles on this subject that points to long term use of sleeping pills and ritalin can lead to early dementia .

I am intrigued by your remark that the pill was only 'going to be prescribed to married women'.

I wonder where you got that from?

I was an early starter on the pill when it first came to England, and no one ever said you had to be married to take it.

On the contrary, it protected all those early-Sixties young girls from having to sit out pregnancies in nasty homes only to have their babies taken away from them.

What it did for married women was one thing. What it did for unmarried women was a revolution.

But this is the first I heard that it was't intended for them. Or was that just the prudish US, do you think?

the pill was started in the early 60s , and a lot of people were against it churches etc , they were given asurances that the pill was only going to be perscribed to married women ,to cut the drudgery of countless pregnancy

and the risk to womens health ,later it became   ok to prescribe to engaged couples , i dont think it was ever a law ,but at doctors discretion it just wasnt handed out like it is today .  alot of people no little of social history , they think tampax was invented in the 1950s infact it was invented by a man in 1920s .

and the romens and eygptians had early versions of tampons to ,made of i think linen and a soft bark . i will have to refresh my memory got the old fibro fog . but they had them thats a fact .

one of the first ladies to push forward birthcontrol

was marie stopes who started breaking down the taboos of birth control and sex  in 1921 opening one of the first  clinics that gave some wealthy  women freedom from multible pregnancies  with the early cervical cap.

marie stopes 1921 cervical cap

 

That applied to all UK contraception from GP's and Family Planning Centres in the 50's.

Boots did not sell condoms until almost recent times because of the religious beliefs of the founding family.

Did you see the recent version of Downton Abbey where unmarried Lady Mary read a book presumably Married Love by Marie Stopes asked her married maid to go to the village chemist to buy a pessary cap. She was interrogated by the woman behind the counter.

I learnt a lot from that book at a young age when I found it hidden in my mother’s wardrobe.

Derek (UK)

what it did was increase out of  marriage sex because guys expected girls to be on the pill ,and it put girls under more pressure then before it .

to have sex. i think it caused more problems than it solved .

including the the spreading of sexual disease .and a increase in cervical cancer in young women .because it encouraged sex with as many partners as you wanted , apparently a sexual freedom . not as far as i could see.

what it did was increase out of  marriage sex because guys expected girls to be on the pill ,and it put girls under more pressure then before it .

to have sex. i think it caused more problems than it solved .

including the the spreading of sexual disease .and a increase in cervical cancer in young women .because it encouraged sex with as many partners as you wanted , apparently a sexual freedom . not as far as i could see.

i am a big fan of black and white movies

and one of my faverites is a film with Alan bates called a kind of loving

excellant film , you could buy sheaths in chemists in the 60s the film was based in 1961 but you had to ask for them they were behind the counter.

the other way was at the barbers.

Sure you could buy them in chemists but not in Boots. We could buy "Something for the  weekend" at the barbers or in what they called Surgical Goods shops. The shops had surgical type items in the window but the main business was condoms.  A few had a vending machine outside selling single ones for a shilling.

I have a favourite joke about a young man wanting to buy a condom in a chemists but I cannot tell it here:-)  

I once actually watched a whole episode of Eastenders. I was about to switch channels when the  couple needed a condom. The episode featured his late night search to buy one.

Derek (UK)  

i know we laugh now but thats how it was and better for it in my opinion

i get you boots was differant to an ordinary chemist .

private message me with the joke if you want to. like a giggle

 From Wikipedia:

"Boots, the largest pharmacy chain in Britain, stopped selling condoms altogether in the 1920s, a policy that was not reversed until the 1960s"

At the last company I worked for we had a dealer who used to buy unwanted stock and scrap metal from us. I once asked him what unusual items he had sold.  He said that he had bought millions of short dated Mates condoms and smuggled them into Ireland where contraception was still frowned on.

 

just looked up info on the intoduction of the pill in to britain

when first introduced it was mainly prescribed to older women who already had children . the goverment at the time did not want to be seen to be encouraging promiscuity

although there were not any restrictions on its use the take up of gps prescribing it was slow.

that all changed in 1974 when family planning clinics were allowed to prescribe the pill to unmarried women a very controversial decision at the time.  so like i said it was up to the doctors . weather he prescribed it or not. so much much harder to get hold of.then today.

an interesting bit of info . makes sense . wheres there is a demand your find a chancer.  alot of girls leave ireland to come here for terminations .

its sad.

Boots was our biggest national pharmacy chain and later drug manufacturer.

" Boots UK Limited (formerly Boots the Chemist) is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with outlets in most high streets. In 2006, The Boots Company Plc merged with Alliance UniChem Plc to form Alliance Boots. In 2007, Alliance Boots was bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stefano Pessina, taking the company private, and moving its headquarters to Switzerland, the first ever FTSE 100 company bought by a private equity firm. In 2012, Walgreens bought a 45% stake in Alliance Boots, with the option to buy the rest within three years"

So if you are in the US you can now but Boots products in Walgreens. The Boots No 7 cosmetic ranges is selling well there.

Our daughter was born in 1961 and my wife started on the plii soon after that.